Quotes About Humor

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so I can parlay it into another few weeks of road work.

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent New Year's there once. I'm not trying to namedrop.

Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work." (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.

Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre, the guys who run that show [Big Bang Theory], are really funny and really smart, and the cast is fantastic to work with.

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

Can you imagine getting a gun for a secret Santa? That is especially not a good idea if you work in a post office.

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'

I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.